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And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Endings
Otherwise
Happy
Really
Never

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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
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You look like a ghost, Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?
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He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.
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And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.
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Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
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She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.
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So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
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All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
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It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
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Timing is a sensitive thing.
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
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I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
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It's not a real name, she says. Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.
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I dont think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
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Do you remember all of your audiences? Marco asks. Not all of them, Celia says. But I remember the people who look at me the way you do. What way might that be? As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me. I am not afraid of you, Marco says.
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